عزازل
عزازل (بالعبرية עזאזל) أوعزازيل هواسم غامض يوجد في التوراة والأبوكريفا ويستعمل أيضا بدل رميل وجبريل. يظهر الاسم أولا في سفر اللاويين حيث يـُنذَر كبش لـ"عزازيل" ويـطلـَق سراحه في الصحراء كجزء من شعائر يوم كيبور.
المعنى
يعتقد حتى عزازل يعني "الله كان قويا" أو"الله يقوي" من حدثة عزز العبرية بمعنى قوي وحدثة إل أي الله. يخط الاسم أيضا عزايل وهذا يترجم عادة ملاك الموت.
في التوراة
يظهر عزازل لأول مرة في التوراة في سفر اللاويين 16:ثمانية حيث يأمر الله هارون حتى " يلقي هرون على التيسين قرعتين قرعة للرب وقرعة لعزازيل" في يوم التكفير الإسرائيلي. الكبش أوالتيس المختار بالقرعة لله يقدم كقربان ذنب بينما كبش عزازل "يرسله إلى عزازيل إلى البرية" حسب اللاويين 16: 21-22. وفي سفر اللاويين 16: 26 "والذي أطلق التيس إلى عزازيل يغسل ثيابه ويرحض جسده بماء وبعد ذلك يدخل إلى المحلة". وهذا أصل كبش الفداء.
حسب بعض الفهماء اشتق اسم عزازل من عزز بمعنى قوي أوعظيم ومن إل أي الله أوقوي، فيصبح المعنى قوي الله أويشير إلى المنحدرات الجبلية القوية التي يرمى منها الماعز. تقترح نظريات أخرى حتى عزازل مشتق من إله كنعاني هوعسيز الذي يعتقد أنه سبب احتراق الشمس بقوة.
حسب التلمود عزازل اسم المنحدر الذي يقاد فيه الكبش في يوم كيبور. وهذا ما اقتبسه مفسر التوراة شلمويصحقي الذي اعتبر عزازل بمعنى المنحدر أوالأرض الصعبة، وقبل معظم المفسرين اليهود هذا التفسير لتجنب تلويث التوراة بآثار عن تعدد الآلهة أوالإيمان بالشياطين. وحسب ابن عزرا عزازل جبل قرب سيناء.
في المسيحية
في نسخة الملك جيمس ترجم عزازل إلى كبش فداء، وهذا مأخوذ من ترجمة وليام تيندال في 1530 تقريبا الذي فصل عزازل إلى حدثتين عز وأُزل بمعنى "كبش يمضى" أي كبش يهرب أوكبش الهرب أوالفداء. ولأن هذا الكبش يرسل بعد وضع ذنوب الشعب عليه ويرمى من فوق منحدر إلى الصحراء ليهلك (ربما على يد شيطان الصحراء عزازل) أصبحت حدثة كبش الفداء أوالهرب تشير لشخص عادة بريء يتهم أويعاني أويعاقب بذنب أوجريمة ارتكبها آخرون.
في الإسلام
Even though the Quran does not mention the name Azazel, this figure often appears in islamic tradition and narrations. Azazel (Arabic: عزازيل Azāzīl) seems to have developed from the Jewish lore and is said to be the original name of Iblis. The word Iblis means "to despair" and Azazel despaired from God, thus earning him that title. While angels are entrusted with specific tasks to fulfill, Azazel (since his fall) is endowed with the task to lead beings towards evil and wrong actions.Muhammad Al-Munajjid, who promotes the salafi school of thought, refuses Azazel and thus also, an angelic origin of the Devil, as an Isra'iliyyat, since he holds that, as supported by Surah 66:6, angels are infallible beings of God incapable of falling from his grace. Others assert that Surah 6:66 refers not to angels as a whole, but specifically to the guardians of hellfire and their task to fulfil the punishment God ordered them. Although angels in Islamic tradition are not generally infallible, their decision making differs from these of humans (and Jinn), because they are not believed to be subject to temptation and have no base desires. Therefore they may at least commit minor sins or err - for example, by opposing Adam as a vicegerent.
حسب سيرة ابن عباس
Based on traditions from Abd Allah ibn Abbas, Tabari hold, the former archangel Azazel, was the most knowledgeable and honourable angel, a teacher for them and described as having four wings. He was also the leader of angels, who fought against the evil jinn on earth. Due to Azazils loyality and intellect, God give him authority over the lower heavens and earths and additionally was the keeper of paradise. Due to his highranked position, he was called a Jinn (because he and his tribe was veiled from the eyes of the other regular angels, owing to their special position) among the angels and But his position led him become arrogant and after he refused to bow before the newly created Adam he was turned into a devil (Shayṭān Arabic: شيطان).
Another point for his refusion, to bow before Adam, is mentioned to be caused by his superior nature out of psyche (fire) compared to the mortal and material nature of the humans (clay). Azazel argued, why God should create a human being, who will shed blood and confusion, while the angels prostrate before him and sing his glory day and night. Even he is described as a being made out of fire, he is not assumed to be a jinni according to these reports. His fire differs from the smokeless fire of the jinn.
In further islamic narrations Azazel is said to sneak into the Garden Eden to deceive Adam and his wife, with the help of a peacock or in some accounts in the mouth of a snake, despite asking for mercy.
Even Tabari also recorded the narration from Ibn Abbas, he also stated, some traditions hold the Devil himself may once belonged to the jinn on earth. Because he was the last one of the jinn, who served God, he was risen up into heaven among the angels and therefore he got an angelic name.
عزازيل في معتقد الملايو
In Malays lore, Azazil was an angel in Jannah, who was turned into Jann after refusing to bow down before Adam and then begot the Jinn. They at first inhabited the lowest heaven but later descended to earth and fought against each others and become disobedient towards God.
في الصوفية الإسلامية
In the Umm al-kitab, Azazel is the first emanation of the high king (original God) and loaned the power of creation from the true God. Therefore he claimed to be an independent God, besides the high king. After that, the high king made a new creation which exceeded the creatures of Azazel. After he remains refusing to confess to be just a creature, emanated from the true God, he is banished into lower spheres. Every time he refuses again to accept the new creation Salman, he is banished again into lower regions, until he reaches the earth. The earth is according to the Umm al-kitab created out of the essence of Azazels creation, while humans and lifeforce originated from the heavenly realm. Since Azazel is banished into the material world, he seduces the humans, leads them into his realm and tries to keep human trapped in there. He resembles to the gnostic demiurge.
In Sufism, Azazel is mentioned in the Tawasin, the collection by the tenth-century Sufi writer Mansur Al-Hallaj. Chapter Six of that writing is dedicated to the self-defence of Iblis, and in one section Hallaj explains how each of the letters of Azazel's name relate to his personality.
Another example can be seen in the Isma'ili literature of the Ginans. Pir Sadardin explains in the fourth verse of his Ginan Allah ek kassam:
All the present angels performed their prostrations to human and human accepted the prostrations
Azāzīl did not obey The Commandment, and as such he was reduced in his status earned [that is, of an angel and the blessings thereof]
انظر أيضا
- Azazel (Marvel Comics)
- Azazel in popular culture
- عزازيل (توضيح)
- Baphomet
- The Master and Margarita
- Palorchestes azael (Australian large extinct marsupial, so called because of its strange shape)
- Samyaza
- كبش الفداء
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